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Edwards, Colin Hyde, youngest son of Frederick William Hyde Edwards, of Westminster, by Julia Annie, daughter of James Arthur Humphrey, of Addlestone, Surrey; b. Jan. 25, 1897; adm. April 29, 1909 (A); left Easter 1911, and went to Bradfield Coll.; R. M.C. Sandhurst Dec. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. East Surrey Regt. May 12, 1915; went out to the western front in Dec. 1915; reported missing May 8, 1917; d. May 22, 1917, a prisoner of war in the War Hospital of Shelotille, Douai, of wounds received near Fresnoy; unm.

East, Allred Tomlin, only son of Sir Alfred East, R. A., of Hampstead, President of the Royal Society of British Artists, by Annie, daughter of Henry Heath, of High Wycombe, Bucks; b. July 13, 1877; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (A); left April 1895; became an engineer; A. M. I. C. E. Dec. 3, 1907; special assist. engineer to the Bombay Municipality Waterworks; enlisted in the Indian Marines at Bombay at the outbreak of Great War l; 2nd Lieut. Indian Army (Reserve of Officers) 1915; was attached 17th Co. 3rd Sappers and Miners in July 1915, and left Bombay with the Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia in the following month; d. Dec. 25, 1915, of wounds received in action at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, Dec. 18, 1915; unm.

Dunlop, James Wilkie, eldest son of DavidJugurtha Dunlop, of Beckenham, Kent, a Rangoon merchant, by Laura Frances, daughter of John Beddard, of Dudley, Worcs; b. Jan. 18, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); left Dec. 1906; went out to Argentina in Oct. 1912, where he was in the service of the Buenos Ayres Western Railway; returned home, and rejoined the London Scottish, which then formed the 14th (Co. of London) Batt. of the London Regt., Sept. 9, 1914; went out to the western front Sept. 13, 1914; was wounded at Messines Oct. 31 following and invalided. home; 2nd Lieut. 11th (Reserve) Batt. the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) June 3, 1915; was attached to 5th (Service) Batt. (Pioneers) the Royal Irish Regt. in Oct., and went out to Salonika Nov. 5, 1915; invalided home Dec. 3, 1916, and had to resign his commission on account of his health in the following month; d. from the effects of his wound March 5, 1917; unm.

Drought, George Thomas Acton, only son of the Rev. George Meares Drought, Incumbent of St. Matthew Newtown, Mount Kennedy, co. Wicklow, by Beatrice, daughter of James Scott Robertson, C. B.; b. Aug. 2, 1880; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left July 1894, and went to Dulwich Coll.; 2nd Lieut. R. F. A. Nov. 22, 1899; Lieut. Feb. 16, 1901; Adjutant Nov. 23, 1904 -June 17, 1908; Capt. May 19, 1906; Major Oct. 30, 1914; served in the South African War 1900-2, and in Great War I; m.; d. June 14, 1915, of wounds received in action in France May 17, 1915.

Dodgshon, John Hampson, son of Edmund Dodgshon, of Manchester, by Rose, daughter of Charles Bill, of London; b. July 29, 1891; adm. May 4, 1905 (H); migrated up Rigaud's; left Easter 1908; joined the H. A. C. in July 1913, and served in Flanders and France from Sept. 18, 1914; was invalided home in Feb. 1915, and on his recovery was appointed 2nd Lieut. in the Surrey Yeomanry, March 4, 1915; went to Egypt Oct. 4, 1915, and was at the Dardanelles for six months as Asst. Military Landing Officer; Lieut. in the Royal Flying Corps Aug. 24, 1916, and appointed Instructor at the Royal Central Flying School, Upavon, Pewsey, Wilts, Sept. 7, 1916; killed in an aeroplane accident at the Bournemouth Aerodrome whilst acting as observer Oct. 1, 1916; unm.

Dobbie, Alexander Middleton, elder son of Sir James Johnston Dobbie, Kt., F.R.S., LL. D., Principal of the Government Laboratories, London, by Violet, daughter of Thomas Chilton, of Greford, Flintshire; b. June 22, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); left Dec. 1916; 2nd Lieut. 1/6th Batt. the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) April 26, 1917; went out to the western front Aug. 18, 1917; d. at Pernes April 13, 1918, of wounds received in action near Bethune April 11, 1918; unm.